When I get busy, I get stupid.” Ain’t that the truth. Creative people need time to just sit around and do nothing. I get some of my best ideas when I’m bored,

La gente creativa necesita tiempo para sentarse a no hacer nada. Yo tengo algunas de mis mejores ideas cuando estoy aburrido, por eso nunca llevo mis camisas a la lavandería. Me encanta planchar; es tan aburrido que siempre me surgen buenas ideas.

"Creative people need time to just sit around and do nothing. I get some of my best ideas when I'm bored, which is why I never take my shirts to the cleaners. I love ironing my shirts-it's so boring, I almost always get good ideas. If you're out of ideas, wash the dishes. Take really long walk. Stare at a spot on the wall for as long as you can. As the artist Maira Kalman says, "Avoiding work is the way to focus my mind.

It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

Dare I hesitate to say that creativity might be in jeopardy because one of the key components of being creative is boredom and silence and isolation.

Some of the most creative and productive people I have ever met work in multi-week bursts and then have weeks where they just idle with little done. It’s the nature of the human animal.

Creativity doesn't require much time. But creativity always needs your energy. You can't create if you're pooped or your brain is full of junk. A person who manages creativity makes sure his schedule has lots of free spaces, no matter how many priorities are looming.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

This is very important — to take leisure time. Pace is the essence. Without stopping entirely and doing nothing at all for great periods, you're gonna lose everything...just to do nothing at all, very, very important. And how many people do this in modern society? Very few. That's why they're all totally mad, frustrated, angry and hateful.

Spend time in silence. Take time to get to know yourself and your genius in stillness.

Meditation isn’t hard.

All you have to do is sit there and do nothing. Just sit down. Close your eyes and say, 'I’m just going to give myself a break for an hour. This is my hour off from life. This is the hour I’m not going to do anything.'